King Combs has released the official video for “Kim,” a tribute song to his late mother, Kim Porter.
The video, directed by Kaito, opens with a black-and-white shot of King, whose father Sean “Diddy” Combs recently saw his prison release date being pushed back, running in slow motion. From there, we see King tearfully holding a gun while sitting in a rocking chair, plus recreations of the 27-year-old as a child.
“Kim, I love you, mama,” King raps in the opening seconds of the song, taken from his Never Stop EP. “Things ain't been the same here without you, mama.”
On Instagram, King said he “wanted to honor” his late mother with the video.
“I miss you so much, Mommy,” he wrote in a post shared Nov. 16. “Not a day goes by that I don’t feel your love watching over us. Today will forever mean something deeper, and I wanted to honor you with this video. I know you’re in Heaven, proud of everything we’re becoming. I love you forever.”
Apple Music credits production on the track to the artist formerly known as Kanye West, who’s also listed as a composer. As previously reported, Ye served as the executive producer of the seven-track Never Stop project, originally released back in June.
Kim Porter, who had multiple children with Diddy, died at the age of 47 in 2018. Porter’s death was confirmed to have been due to pneumonia, with Diddy later including a tribute song of his own on his The Love Album: Off the Grid project in 2023.
More recently, Porter’s death was prominently featured in an 11-minute video shared by Diddy’s legal team ahead of his sentencing. The Bad Boy Records founder received a split verdict at the conclusion of his sex trafficking and racketeering trial in July, followed by a 50-month sentence in October.
As expected, Diddy has since initiated appeal efforts, targeting both the 50-month sentence and the verdict itself.
